Internet Censorship and Jewish Destiny

By Carol A. Valentine

November 8, 1998--A powerful vested interest is right now pushing forward
with a strategy to cripple free speech on the Internet. And the very people
who claim to be protecting Internet free speech are keeping deathly silent,
not breathing a word of warning.

After you read this message, do drop a line and ask them why. Among
them are:

Do we have a right to inquire about, and speak freely about, the series
of World War II events now known as "The Holocaust"?

You are no doubt familiar with the traditional story: (1) The Jews living
in Europe prior to WW II were innocent and loyal citizens of the nations
in which they lived; (2) without cause, Hitler and the Germans hated them
and made them scapegoats for Germany's problems; (3) Hitler and the National
Socialists designed a systematic and institutionalized program to exterminate
all the Jews in the world; (4) Homicidal gas chambers were built specifically
for this purpose; (4) Six million Jews were exterminated and their bodies
were completely consumed in huge cremation pits and ovens.

True or false, the holocaust story has had, and continues to have, big
political ramifications. After the war, it was used to marshal popular
support for establishing the state of Israel, and today the holocaust story
continues to lend moral legitimacy to Israel.

Upon that legitimacy, hundreds of billions of US dollars have been transferred
to Israel. According to an article by Donald Neff (Washington Report on
Middle East Affairs, Jan-Feb. 1997, p. 74) :

". . . the (US) aid program to Israel has amounted to the largest voluntary
transfer of wealth and technology in history, far more than all American
aid given to rehabilitate Western Europe under the Marshall Plan after
World War II."

The horror of the holocaust story has another important effect: It shields
the political activity of Jews from public scrutiny. No need to belabor
this point: one cannot critically comment upon the political activities
of Jews or Israel as one might comment upon the activities of Catholics
or the Vatican. Those who are courageous enough to comment will certainly
endure public branding: "Nazi!" "Jew-baiter!" "Anti semite!"

But, perhaps most importantly, the holocaust story shows that the Jews
are a special people, essentially different from the rest of humanity.
Their suffering is unique in human history. No race, nowhere, at any time,
as been subject to such persecution.

Theologically, one might say that the Jews have been sanctified by their
suffering, as the Christian saints were sanctified by their suffering.

In the holocaust story, Hitler and the Jews are positioned as countervailing
forces in a perfect polarity: At one pole, Hitler, the unique embodiment
of Human Evil. At the other pole, those he tried to destroy, the Jews,
the unique embodiment of Human Good.

[We will leave out of this discussion the fact that the vast majority
Jews living today are descendants of the Dark-Age Khazarian Empire and
have no Semitic blood. See Arthur Koestler's "The Thirteenth Tribe," Random
House, 1976].

The theme that the Jews are unique and have a special role on Earth
is often repeated in Jewish thought. The Old Testament, of course, talks
about God's Chosen People. In the 12th century, the famous Zionist poet
Halevi expressed this same view in "Kuzari" ("The Khazars"). Halevi believed
the Jewish nation to be the sole mediator between God and the rest of mankind.
Here are more contemporary expressions of the same thought:

"Jewish history consists of a unique series of events--accidental or
purposive--which have had the practical effect of preserving the Jews .
. . to fulfill their avowed mission of ushering in a brotherhood of man.

"Whether this mission was initiated by God or retroactively attributed
to God by the Jews themselves in no way alters our thesis of a Jewish manifest
destiny."

This quote appears on the dustjacket of "The Indestructible Jews, "
written by Jewish historian Max I. Dimont (New American Library, New York,1971)
. This Manifest Destiny of the Jews is actually the subject of Dimont's
work.

Dimont quotes Israeli Prime Minister Ben Gurion: "My concept of the
messianic idea is not a metaphysical but a social-cultural one ...I believe
in our moral and intellectual superiority, in our capacity to serve as
a model for the redemption of the human race ... The glory of the Divine
Presence is within us, in our hearts, and not outside us." (p. 337.)

Now the circle is closed. The triumph of the Jews over Evil Incarnate
(Hitler) bolsters the Jewish messianic vision of the Jewish destiny.

But What If . . .

But what if the holocaust story is not true? Suppose the German National
Socialists were not different in kind from others who have appeared in
history throughout the millennia, and suppose that Hitler was not the Embodiment
of Human Evil? What effect would that have on the polarity established
by the holocaust story? Why, it might that mean the Jews are not the Embodiment
of Human Good.

If the Holocaust story were shown to be hoax of the twentieth century,
what of Israel, and what of the Manifest Destiny of the Jews?

Enter the scholars and researchers who are taking a second look into
the holocaust story. Enter the holocaust revisionists, among them, Ernst
Zundel.

Ernst Zundel

Born in 1939 in Germany, Ernst Zundel was raised a Christian and a pacifist
As a young man he refused to be conscripted into Germany's armed forces.
He emigrated to Canada which, at the time, had no draft.

In Canada, Zundel met a French author, Adrien Arcand, who set Zundel
on a path of scholarship and research concerning events during WW II. As
a result of these studies, Zundel concluded that there never was a Hitler-designed
and directed program to exterminate the Jews.

Instead, Hitler had a "Germany for Germans" program. Hitler and other
Germans considered the Jews a foreign and hostile nation living within
Germany's boundaries, and proceeded with plans to deport them. Thus the
tattooing and the concentration camps.

Those familiar with Jewish history know, of course, that the Jews have
been viewed as foreign nationals and expelled from their host countries
on a number of occasions. For example, they were expelled from England
in 1290, from France in 1306, and from Spain in 1492. Hitler was not unique
in this regard.

Zundel claims the gas-chamber-extermination story was an allied propaganda
campaign fired up during WWII. He says that since that time the false story
has been used to raise money and sympathy for the Israeli/Jewish/Zionist
political agenda.

Because he was an effective and energetic communicator, Zundel soon
became a threat to holocaust lobby. Many attempts were made to silence
him, ranging from the filing of court actions to fire-bombing his house
and an attempt to murder him with a pipe bomb. But Zundel survived.

Enter the Internet. Technology favored revisionists like Zundel. The
Interent has by passed the largely Jewish-owned monopoly of the press.
Now, Zundel's research and the research of many other revisionists is available
for all with a computer modem to see.

The Zundelsite links section will take you to many other revisionist
sites. The glaring holes in the holocaust story are out there for all to
see. You will understand, perhaps, why the holocaust lobby is trying to
cleanse the Internet of holocaust revisionism.

A new strategy to censor Zundel's material on the Internet was needed
and devised. Enter the Canadian Human Rights Commission, on the forefront
of the current attack on Zundel. Here is their tortured logic:

1) The Commission says "denying the holocaust" is hate speech,

2) The Commission claims jurisdiction over "hate" speech transmitted
on Canadian telephone lines,

3) The Commission says that the Internet is "like a telephone,"

4) Therefore, the Commission has jurisdiction over Zundel's spreading
of "hate" on the Internet.

Astonishingly, the Canadian Human Rights Commission has ruled that Zundel
cannot use the truth of what he has said as a defense! In other words,
the truth of Zundel's material is irrelevant. See:

While there are significant problems in the Commission's argument, there
is also a problem in Zundel's defense. The Commission's "the Internet is
like a telephone" charge was exhaustively discussed in the Declan McCullough
private e-mail list which caters to cyber free speech/privacy types. At
first a number of people were willing to come forward to testify as technical
experts on Zundel's behalf. But all have been intimidated into silence.
To my knowledge, Zundel's legal team have still been unable to locate a
technical witness to come before the Commission.

But what of the groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF),
the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and the Global Internet
Liberty Campaign (GILC)? They should be publicizing the case and arranging
for technical experts to go to bat for Zundel. But these groups seem to
be covertly working for the other side.

Zundel offered to address a meeting of the Global Internet Liberty Campaign
in Ottawa last month. His offer was ignored.

The chief officers of EEF and EPIC, Messrs. Steinhardt and Rotenberg,
are both Jews. If they were sincere in their proclamations for free speech,
they surely would be in an excellent position to offer material assistance
to Zundel. Instead, they are palpably helping the forces of censorship
by keeping mum on the matter while directing public attention away from
the Zundel case.

If Messrs. Steinhardt and Rotenberg are not sincere in their Bill of
Rights free speech proclamations, what program ARE they following, and
whose interests DO they serve? Drop them an e-mail letter and ask:

Please help to fill the information void. Spread this news to your own
personal mailing lists, and get on any and all suitable Usenet news group
and start or join discussions. Go to the Zundelsite and learn more:

"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary
act."--
attr. George Orwell

Postnote:

The Zundelsite is owned and operated by an American citizen, Dr. Ingrid
Rimland, who lives in California. The strategy is, apparently, to convict
Zundel and issue an injunction ordering not to speak of holocaust matters
over telephone wires; when Zundel violates the injunction by speaking to
Dr. Rimland or anyone else about his views, he can be criminally convicted
and deported to Germany (he is still a German citizen, having been denied
Canadian citizenship twice). "Holocaust denial" is a crime in Germany,
and Zundel has already been convicted, so he will go straight to prison.
At the same time, an important international "hate speech" censorship'
precedent will have been established for the Internet.

Meanwhile, the holocaust lobby is attacking Zundel in another venue:
The Canadian civilian spy agency and its oversight body (the Canadian Security
Intelligence Service and the Security Intelligence review Committee) have
been holding hearings on Zundel, claiming that he poses a "security risk"
to Canada. Zundel has not been given any more details, and has not been
told of the "evidence" against him. The hearings are being held in secret,
without public record. The apparent goal: to get Zundel deported from Canada
and imprisoned in Germany.